One way the Japanese decided to counter the threat was by using pilots known as kamikaze, which means "divine wind," to fly planes directly into ships. In a culture that embraced the idea of ...

Japan’s war situation from then on only grew worse. By autumn 1943, the idea of a kamikaze squadron had been floated by a small circle in the military, according to a military history ...

There was one certainty about being a kamikaze, he says: “You go, and it’s over.” He survived only because Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender on the radio as he was his way to ...

Despite numbering just 4000 out of more than 2 million Japanese deaths in World War II, kamikaze pilots hold an outsized place in the public consciousness. Alamy Stock Photo Books and films are ...

The attacks of the kamikaze squadron were reported extensively in Japan on Oct. 29, 1944, but it seemed that Matayuki learned about them two days before along with his team members. Matayuki sent ...